National Security (Housing of War Workers) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 354

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REGULATION UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1940.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the National Security Act 1939-1940.

Dated this fourteenth day of August, 1942.

(SGD.) GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Sgd.) E. J. WARD

for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendment of the National Security (Housing of War Workers) Regulations.

Definitions.

Regulation 4 of the National Security (Housing of War Workers) Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting before the definition of “prescribed area” the following definition:—

“‘munitions of war’ includes—

(a) the whole or any part of any ship, submarine, aircraft, tank or similar vehicle or engine, arms, armaments, ammunition, vehicle, bomb, torpedo, mine, weapon or device (whether actual or experimental);

(b) any other article or material which the Minister, by order, declares to be munitions of war for the purposes of these Regulations; and

(c) any machine, machine tool, tool, gauge, jig, die, template and mould necessary for the manufacture, production or overhaul of munitions of war”; and

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  ,1942.

 Statutory Rules 1941, No. 169, as amended by Statutory Rules 1941, Nos. 207 and 324; and 1942, Nos. 17, 171 and 256.

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(b) by omitting paragraph (a) of the definition of “war worker” and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(a) who is engaged in the manufacture, production, repair or overhaul for war purposes of munitions of war or the maintenance of plant therefor; or”.

 

By Authority: L.F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.